Sasanian Empire (/səˈsɑːniən, səˈseɪniən/) or Sassanid Empire, officially known as Ērānšahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before...
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Muslim conquest of Persia (redirect from Muslim conquest of Sassanid Empire)
few decades led to one of the largest empires in history, beginning with a confrontation with the Sassanid Empire under the general Khalid ibn al-Walid...
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Sassanian or New Persian Empire" p. 184 Farrokh, The Sassanids, 2017 Wilcox, Peter (1986). Rome's Enemies: Parthians and Sassanid Persians (Men-at-Arms)...
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their former suzerain, the Parthian Empire, at the Battle of Hormozdgan in 224. At its height, the Sasanian Empire spanned from Turkey and Rhodes in the...
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Justinian I (redirect from Justinian I of the Roman Empire)
From his uncle, Justinian inherited ongoing hostilities with the Sassanid Empire. In 530 the Persian forces suffered a double defeat at Dara and Satala...
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Zuṭṭ (section In Sassanid Empire)
originating from Sind and claims that they were distributed throughout the Sassanid Empire. Al-Khwarizmi also elucidates their origins, attributing their roots...
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even within his inner circle. 565AD. Roman Empire, blue and purple; Sassanid Empire in yellow. Sassanid vassals, in orange, encompassing the Persian...
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for over 400 years, during which the Sassanid Empire was, along with the Roman Empire and later the East Roman Empire, one of the two superpowers of late...
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Flag of Iran (section Sassanid Empire)
gradually adopted local Muslim emblems and banners. The official flag of the empire was most probably a black flag, similar to the flag of the Abbasid Caliphate...
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276 (section Sassanid Empire)
Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 323) Bahram I, king of the Sassanid Empire Marcus Annius Florianus, Roman emperor Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman...
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the Sassanids in 627, this was a pyrrhic victory. The early Muslim conquests soon saw the conquest of the Levant, of Egypt, and of the Sassanid Empire by...
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Danube frontier with success. He died while campaigning against the Sassanid Empire and is believed to have died of unnatural causes. It was reported that...
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March (territory) (section Persia (Sassanid Empire))
borderlands in the Carolingian Empire and had a long career as purely conventional designations under the Holy Roman Empire. In modern German, "Mark" denotes...
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Fourth Crusade, after which the Empire would never recover, finally succumbing to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. The Sassanid era, encompassing the length of...
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Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 14 August 2019. Rome's Enemies (3): Parthians and Sassanid Persians By Peter Wilcox, Angus McBride...
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was the intellectual centre of the Sassanid Empire and the home of the Academy of Gundeshapur, founded by Sassanid Emperor Shapur I. Gundeshapur was home...
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within the Empire. This system of maintaining the Christians as a protected religious community continued after the Islamic conquest of the Sassanids, and the...
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Caucasian Albania (section Sassanid period)
Armenia, was conquered and annexed by the Sassanid Empire. Albania became a vassal state of the Sassanid Empire, but retained its monarchy; the Albanian...
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payment of tributes to the Empire's neighbors. This miscalculated move resulted in rekindling of war with the Sassanid Empire, and in a Lombard invasion...
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Mesopotamia fell to the Sassanid Persians. The division of the region between the Roman Byzantine Empire from 395 AD and the Sassanid Empire lasted until the...
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In the Sasanian Empire, the state religion Zoroastrianism created the policy that dictated relationships between men and women. Zoroastrianism set what...
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and purges Africa of his supporters. King Hormizd II, ruler of the Sassanid Empire, demands that the king of the Ghassanids pays tribute. After the king...
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Siege of Ctesiphon (637) (category Battles involving the Sasanian Empire)
the great cities of Persia, the imperial capital of the Parthian and Sassanid Empires. The Muslims managed to capture Ctesiphon ending the Persian rule over...
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The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the Persian dynasty which lasted from 224 to 651 AD. 224 - Ardashir I introduces the title...
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next generation or two. The Empire suffered multiple serious crises during the third century. The rising Sassanid Empire inflicted three crushing defeats...
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Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity) (redirect from Armenian empire)
frontier of the two large empires and their successors, the Byzantine and Sassanid empires. In 301, Tiridates III proclaimed Christianity as the state religion...
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Battle of al-Qadisiyyah (category Battles involving the Sasanian Empire)
the largest empires the world had ever seen. This put the nascent Islamic empire on a collision course with the Byzantine and Sassanid empires, which were...
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Pre-Islamic Arabia (section Parthian and Sassanid)
influence of the Sassanid Empire. After the demise of the Lakhmids, another army was sent to Yemen, making it a province of the Sassanid Empire under a Persian...
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History of Iraq (section Sassanid Empire)
Sasanian Empire, during which time Arab tribes from South Arabia migrated into Lower Mesopotamia, leading to the formation of the Sassanid-aligned Lakhmid...
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3rd century (section Roman Empire)
succeeded by the Sassanid Empire in 224 after Ardashir I defeated and killed Artabanus V during the Battle of Hormozdgan. The Sassanids then went on to...
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